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  • NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter hitches a ride with an Atlas V/Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida(Photo: Scott Andrews)
    Space
    LRO - a giant leap for data transfer from the moon
    Even at 238,000 miles away, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) keeps in touch with the Earth 24 hours a day, transmitting 461GB of data per day at speeds of to 100Mb/s.
  • The AMREL HC-2 features a Windows XP interface and 128GB solid state drive (Image: AMREL)
    Military
    AMREL announce the HC-2 military computer
    AMREL have announced the release of their latest wearable military communication equipment, the HC-2.
  • An artist's impression of the LRO spacecraft taking hi-res images of the moon's surface (Image: Chris Meaney/NASA)
    Science
    The search for ice on the moon heats up
    Special sensing technology developed by Raytheon Company for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system is aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), one of two spacecraft hoping to find photographic evidence that the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Until now, man hasn’t been